Former President Jimmy Carter says Hillary Clinton “took very little action” as Secretary of State to bring about peace. Carter, 89, made the remark about the former secretary of State and 2016 Democratic front-runner in a phone interview with Time magazine Wednesday night after he spoke at the Civil Rights Summit in Austin, Texas. John Kerry has been successful as Secretary of State, Carter said, because President Obama has been deeply involved in the foreign policy issues of his second term. 'When Secretary Clinton was Secretary of State, she took very little action to bring about peace,” he said.